CVE-1999-0674: Undefined Security Weakness

The BSD profil system call allows a local user to modify the internal data space of a program via profiling and execve...

2.2.12.execve.txt

From: [email protected] Subject: execve bug linux-2.2.12 While doing some debugging, I discovered a really nasty stack smash bug in linux-2.2.12. The I haven't checked previous versions of the 2.2 kernel but bug appears to be fixed in linux-2.2.13pre17. If I am reading this correctly, the...

NetBSD 1.4 OpenBSD 2.5 Solaris 7.0 - profil(2) Modify The Internal Data Space

NetBSD 1.4 OpenBSD 2.5 Solaris 7.0 - profil2 Modify The Internal Data Space / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/570/info Some BSD's use a profil2 system call that dates back to "version 6" unix. This system call arranges for the kernel to sample the PC and increment an element of an array...